Shady El Noshokaty
Nour El Refai
Shady El Noshokaty is a contemporary Egyptian artist born in Damietta City in June 1971, whose projects was featured in many established Contemporary Art Museums and international exhibitions around the world like the Venice Biennial, Hayward Gallery, Mori museum, Kunst museum in Stockholm, Bochum, Arab World Institute in Paris and many others. He also works as Associate Professor in the Departments of the Arts in the American University in Cairo. He was an executive curator for Ahmed Basiony’s art project (30 days Running in the place) for the Egyptian pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennial.
Shady El Noshokaty has also played an important role in the field of Art Educatiοn in Egypt during the last decade. He created his annual media art educatiοn parallel experimental program as a summer workshop at the Faculty Of Art Educatiοn–Helwan University, for 12 years (2000–2012).
In 2010 he established ASCII - Foundation for Contemporary Art Educatiοn, as a research center, interactive new media art lab and library aimed to educate and develop young thinkers and researchers’ experiences in new and alternative Media Art practices and creativity in Egypt.
